Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…
Which fable records Hercules's conduct toward the god of wealth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fable, Hercules · What happens: record, conduct · To what, where: conduct
This is exam question 4 of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 fable | det |
| 2 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | nsubj |
| 3 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Hercules | case |
| 6 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | obj |
| 7 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 god | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 god | det |
| 9 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wealth | case |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 god | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 records | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | which fable | Hercules's conduct | toward the god of wealth | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conduct=Theme | |||
| 2 | conduct | Hercules | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Hercules and Plutus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Plutus | cc |
| 3 | Plutus | Plutus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hercules | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Hercules and the apple of discord among the gods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 apple | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 apple | det |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 discord | case |
| 6 | discord | discord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | nmod |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 gods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gods | det |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 apple | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hercules and the Hydra
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Hydra | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hydra | det |
| 4 | Hydra | Hydra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Hercules | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Plutus and the Witch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plutus | Plutus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Witch | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 4 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plutus | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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